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longer than eye, their origin midway between anal and base 

 of pectorals. Pectorals about as long as postocular part of 

 head, not reaching ventrals. Caudal deeply incised, 4*/ 5 4 2 / 5 

 in length. About 20 slightly flattened gillrakers with a series 

 of fine spinules at the innerside, '/ 4 shorter than branchial 

 filaments, a little longer than half eye. Scales thin, very de- 

 ciduous, smooth, rounded behind. Four to 5 abdominal scutes 

 between pectorals and ventrals. Brownish, with a silvery late- 

 ral band, broadest in the middle. A broad dark spot behind occi- 

 put. Fins hyaline, caudal powdered with black. Length 145 mm. 



No men indig. : Teri (Mai. Batavia); Tengadak (Sundan.); 

 Ubeh (Ternate); Puti, Kuruba (Batjan); Puri-puti (Ambon). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia, Bantam, Semarang); Madura!; 

 Bali ; Lombok ! ; Bawean ; Sumatra (Telokbetong, Padang, Pri- 

 aman); Nias ! ; Pinang; Singapore; Bintang (Rio); Banka ; 

 Celebes (Macassar!, Tanette ' Bonthain, Badjoa, Sindjai, Me- 

 nado, Tombariri); Batjan; Ternate; Ambon. Philippines; 

 Formosa; Japan; Samoa; Tahiti; British India. 



In sea, ascending tidal rivers. 



5. Stolephorus tri (Blkr.). 



Engraulis tri Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 40. 

 Engraulis tri Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 389. 

 Stolephorus tri Bleeker, All. Ichth. VI. 186672, p. 128. 

 Engraulis tri von Martens, Exp. Ost-Asien, Zoologie I. 1876, p. 404. 

 Engraulis tri Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 630. 



B. ii; D. 1.1415; A. 2023; P. 1213; v - 7; L.I. 

 3235; L. tr. 89. 



Oblong. Height 3' 2 / 3 4, head about 4, eye 3 3Vs- Snout 

 pointed, much projecting, shorter than eye. Maxillary pro- 

 duced to gillopening. Dorsal much nearer to base of caudal 

 than to snout. Its origin far behind origin- of ventrals, about 

 midway between snout and caudal. Anal 4 ! / 2 5 in length, 

 as long as head or a little shorter, its origin below last 

 ! / 4 of dorsal. Ventrals about midway between suboperculum 

 and anal. Pectorals pointed, scarcely longer than postorbital 

 part of head. Caudal deeply incised, about 4 in length. 

 Scales thin, generally reticulated, very deciduous; 4 5 

 abdominal spiny scutes between pectorals and ventrals. 21 

 stout, serrulated gillrakers, somewhat longer than half of eye, 



